No I don’t think the airlines should be held responsible, but I don’t think it’s as simple as that Sandy. My dad suffers with a disease called Lupus, which makes his blood thicker than it should be. However, he takes a drug called Warfarin which thins his blood, and so should make him less likely to get DVT than any other passenger on a plane. Yet, every long-haul flight we’ve been on in the past couple of years he has come home with a blood clot, twice nearly fatal and once made him very ill in hospital. I don’t know how you could explain him getting these clots, but I really don’t think it’s as simple as ‘rotating your foot’.

Still a few around Mark. It’s only the -300, so they’re still relatively new. I think SAA still has them doesn’t it?

Great pictures Britannia, makes spotting so much more interesting doesn’t it?! Also gives you something to look forward to when you get home….getting them accepted to the big sites!

Great pic mate, well done. You always feel really excited and proud when your first pic gets accepted! Then you start heading for milestone numbers. You may target your first 10, then 20, then you see how many pages of results you can get when you search your name! 😀 I think I currently have 40 or so on planepictures, and only about 15 or so on jp 🙁

G-OBYA is now leased to Blue Panorama airlines as of 12th December 2003. Still registered F-GLOV, and is lsd from the Itochu company 🙂

It was the first and last plane to make me very nearly crap myself! 😀 I was in the approach field at STN whilst an old EAL one approached. Just as it was about to fly over my head, it’s engines roared into action and it made a tight bank abover my head (a go around). However, I wasn’t aware of what a go-around was in those days as a kid, and so for a moment I thought it was gonna crash!

Other than that, loved ’em! Used to see AB and EAL ones all the time here at STN, such a shame to not see them making their noise and billowing out their smoke any more.

Why would you be worried?! Didn’t know what to say?! If she rings you surely that’s a good thing, shows that atleast she even recognises you out of all the other billions of guys on thie Earth.

Already cacking yourself over Key Stage 3?! Ahah I wouldn’t if I were you. As I said, wait til you get to your GCSE’s, that’s when they actually count for something! Key Stage 3 is mainly just to assess how good the schools and the teachers are, not the individual pupils.